To W. B. Carpenter 3 December [1859]
Summary
Delighted by WBC’s letter about Origin. There is now "a great physiologist on our side". "You have done me an essential kindness in checking the odium theologicum in the E[dinburgh] R[eview] … immaterial whether we go quite the same lengths … the principle is everything."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Benjamin Carpenter |
| Date: | 3 Dec [1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.6: 3 (EH 88205920) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2568 |
Matches: 4 hits
To Mary Butler 11 September [1859]
Summary
Inquires about the chances of meeting her when he goes to Ilkley for a cure.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Mary Butler |
| Date: | 11 Sept [1859] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.168) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2489 |
Matches: 4 hits
To John Lubbock [6 February 1859]
Summary
JL’s brother’s accident.
Thinks JL should tackle systematics of anomalous insects from studies of internal organs.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | [6 Feb 1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 26 (EH 88206475) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2408 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … s younger brother, had injured himself (see following letter). Henrietta Emma Darwin …
- … accompanied Emma Darwin and the younger children to …
- … Hartfield, Sussex, on 7 February 1859 ( Emma Darwin’s diary). Henrietta had been …
- … ill throughout much of January. Emma Darwin’s diary records that CD had a second ‘attack’ …
To George Varenne Reed 1 July [1859]
Summary
Sends payment for Francis Darwin’s tutoring. Inquires about possible arrangements for his son Leonard, who is slow and not well, to attend with Francis.
Asks whether he can have a cutting of GVR’s carrion-smelling Arum which he needs for an experiment.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Varenne Reed |
| Date: | 1 July [1859] |
| Classmark: | Buckinghamshire Record Office (D 22/39/2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2474 |
To W. E. Darwin 14 [March 1859]
Summary
Writes of events at Down: mostly of playing billiards on their new table.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 14 [Mar 1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 40 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2431 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … visited Down from 10 to 14 March 1859 ( Emma Darwin’s diary). CD had recently purchased a …
- … House. Mrs Grut had been engaged by Emma Darwin in January 1859 as a governess for the …
- … written in December 1858 (DAR 210.6), Emma Darwin wrote that she was ‘looking out for a …
- … was terminated on 16 March 1859 ( Emma Darwin’s diary) because of an incident that took …
- … day CD’s letter was written. Henrietta Emma Darwin recounted the incident in a letter to …
To W. D. Fox [12 February 1859]
Summary
Undergoing hydropathic treatment for his old ailment.
The "Abstract" [Origin] is the cause. Only two chapters to do.
His satisfaction that he believes he has convinced Hooker and Huxley and staggered Lyell.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [12 Feb 1859] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 106) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2412 |
To Charles Lyell 30 March [1859]
Summary
CD is grateful to CL for his help in arranging with Murray for publication [of Origin]. Sorry Murray objects to term "abstract" in title, but will defer to him and CL.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 30 Mar [1859] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.164) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2439 |
To Elizabeth Drysdale [22 or 29 October 1859]
Summary
Declines an invitation to visit [Moor] Park.
He hopes that Dr Lane is arranging things to his satisfaction.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Elizabeth Pew, Lady Drysdale; Elizabeth Copland, Lady Drysdale; Elizabeth Drysdale, Lady Drysdale |
| Date: | [22 or 29] Oct 1859 |
| Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (Catalogue 88); Clive Farahar & Sophie Dupré (dealers) (Catalogue 55); B & L Rootenberg (dealers) (May 1991) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2498A |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Henrietta and Elizabeth on 24 November ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). In mid-October CD …
- … and probably Leonard and Horace), arrived on 17 October ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR …
- … 242); letter from Emma Darwin to William Erasmus Darwin, [24 or 31 October 1859] , DAR …
- … the son-in-law of Elizabeth Drysdale ( Emma Darwin (1904), p. 184). See n. 7, below. CD …
- … Darwins were in Ilkley and the reference to four or five weeks’ stay. CD left for Ilkey, in Yorkshire, where he was planning to visit the hydropathic establishment, on 2 October 1859, and left there for London on 9 December ( Correspondence vol. 7, Appendix II). In his letter to J. D. Hooker, 15 October [1859] ( Correspondence vol. 7), CD wrote that his family were arriving on Monday, which would have been 17 October, and staying for three or four weeks. Emma …
To W. E. Darwin 25 [August 1859]
Summary
Writes of a visit to Leith Hill and WED’s injured ankle.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 25 [Aug 1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 47 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2483 |
To W. E. Darwin [14 October 1859]
Summary
Discusses events at Ilkley.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [14 Oct 1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 49 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2498 |
To John Lubbock [22 November 1859]
Summary
CD’s former admiration for Paley’s Natural theology [1802].
Cares not for reviews [of Origin] but for opinions of men like Lubbock, Huxley, Hooker, Lyell.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | [22 Nov 1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 17 (EH 88206466) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2532 |
To W. E. Darwin [5 May 1859]
Summary
Discusses WED’s plans for the summer.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [5 May 1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 43 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2442 |
To W. D. Fox [6 October 1859]
Summary
First impressions of the water-cure establishment are not favourable – "I always hate everything new".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [6 Oct 1859] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 123) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2502 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … See Metcalfe 1906 and Rees 1989 . Emma Darwin and the children joined CD at Ilkley on …
- … and stayed until 24 November 1859 ( Emma Darwin’s diary). See letter to J. D. Hooker, 15 …
- … Emma telling me to look out for for a House, as she is greatly inclined to come here. But I have not least idea whether there is a House which would suit or how I could do my water-cure out of Establishment. — So everything is utterly uncertain. I heartily wish you would come, but I darenot not advise or press it. Most affec ly yours | C. Darwin …
To W. E. Darwin [23 October – 20 November 1859]
Summary
Tells how to get information on, and gain membership in, the London Library.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [23 Oct – 20 Nov 1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 48 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2497 |
From J. D. Hooker [12 December 1859]
Summary
JDH half through Origin. High praise for facts and reasoning.
Lyell told JDH his criticisms: small matters JDH did not appreciate.
Reactions of G. Bentham, J. S. Henslow, and C. C. Babington.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [12 Dec 1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 137–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2579 |
To John Murray 5 April [1859]
Summary
Sends title and first three chapters [of Origin]. Thinks first chapter will interest the public and is sure views are original. If JM thinks otherwise, he should freely reject the work. Chapter 2 is dull and abstruse, chapter 3 is plain and interesting.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 5 Apr [1859] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.35–35A) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2447 |
To Mary Butler 20 February [1859]
Summary
Sends naturalists’ autographs.
Enjoyed fortnight at Moor Park.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Mary Butler |
| Date: | 20 Feb [1859] |
| Classmark: | John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection, MS 84.2 (Box 3, Folder 37)) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2416 |
To James Paget [15 October – 19 November 1859]
Summary
Thanks JP for bearing in mind his strong wish to learn any facts on inheritance at corresponding ages, and on correlation of growth.
JP’s case of teeth affected by syphilitic parents seems very curious. Would like to hear a few particulars when they meet.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Paget, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [15 Oct – 19 Nov 1859] |
| Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.5703/27) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2500 |
To W. E. Darwin [13 February 1859]
Summary
Discusses events at Moor Park and domestic matters.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [13 Feb 1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 35 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2414 |
To W. E. Darwin 7 July [1859]
Summary
Discusses affairs at Down and WED’s coming trip to the Lakes.
Is getting on very slowly with his "confounded proof-sheets" [of Origin].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 7 July [1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 46 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2476 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (35) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (8) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (7) |
| Butler, Mary | (2) |
| Fox, W. D. | (2) |
| Lubbock, John | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (36) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (8) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (8) |
| Butler, Mary | (2) |
| Fox, W. D. | (2) |
